Brain surgery, science and education

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and educator, I come across many interesting bits of information and wonderful people. I will try to share some of this with you here. While the site draws heavily from my experiences as the Campagna Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Oregon Health & Science University, and head of neurosurgery at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, this is a personal blog. My thanks to my wonderful OHSU colleagues, who share this exciting and rewarding work with me.

Friday, March 15, 2013

OHSU Neurosurgery Residency 2013 Match

It is a true pleasure to announce the outstanding results of
the OHSU 2013 Neurosurgery Residency Program Match. OHSU matched two residents
this year, following our complement increase in 2012 to three and two residents
on an alternating year schedule:

Dr. Carli Bullis, MD, holds undergraduate degrees in both
biology and history from Indiana University in Bloomington, and is completing
her medical degree at the IU School of Medicine where she is a member of the
AOA honors society. As a medical student, she conducted research on the
radiographic anatomy of pediatric spine surgery. At IU, she was a silver
medalist at the US Figure Skating Intercollegiate National Championships.

Dr. Lauren Simpson, MD, studied neuroscience as an
undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and earned a Master of
Public Health degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is
completing her medical degree at Duke University, where she is a Dean’s Tuition
Scholarship Merit Award winner. She has participated in and written about
medical care capacity building in the underdeveloped world.

Our program is proud of the outstanding quality of the
medical graduates who come to OHSU to train in neurological surgery. OHSU
neurosurgery residents are amongst the most accomplished and capable in the
country.

With this year’s match, we believe that the OHSU program now
also represents the highest number (7) and highest proportion (47%) of female
residents in any of the 101 accredited U.S. residency programs. This proportion
is almost identical to that of women graduating from U.S. medical schools
(48%), and dramatically higher than the percentage of women neurosurgery
residents currently training in the U.S. (12%), or entering accredited
residency programs each year (20%).

The OHSU neurological surgery residency program is fortunate
to attract top applicants of either gender and of various cultural backgrounds.
Increasingly, the residents we train resemble the rich and diverse population
that they will care for. Each of our residents strive to meet and surpass the
rigorous criteria for hard work, compassionate care, and excellence required by
the personally demanding and technically challenging field of neurosurgery.
Each of them defines what it takes to succeed in this terrific profession.

If you are a neurosurgeon, you realize just how frenzied your work program might get. You might have arrived at an area where by you would like to acquire much more handle in excess of your individual program. You like it your work and so are great at it, thereby would want to carry on doing work, nevertheless would furthermore similar to to be able to patiently off as you similar to. It had been for this scenario that will locum tenens neurosurgery work opportunities had been produced.neurosurgery residency